Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] bzr access problems

[Tim Cross]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Martin Pool <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 10 October 2011 16:00, Tim Cross <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Starting this morning, I am unable to do a pull from the bzr repo for
>> emacs. I also tried to do a fresh bzr branch with the same result.
>>
>> The commands I've tried using and the errors I am seeing follow
>>
>> address@hidden:~/bzr/emacs/trunk$ bzr pull
>> Using saved parent location: http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk/
>> bzr: ERROR: Cannot lock
>> LockDir(filtered-172943884:///emacs/trunk/.bzr/branch/lock):
>> Permission denied:
>> "/srv/bzr/emacs/trunk/.bzr/branch/lock/0m3a6hs09w.tmp": [Errno 13]
>> Permission denied:
>> '/srv/bzr/emacs/trunk/.bzr/branch/lock/0m3a6hs09w.tmp'
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> This is bzr seeing an errno 13 from the OS when it tries to take that
> lock.  It is strange that it's trying to lock when you are doing a
> readonly operation. I would like to see the traceback which should be
> in the server log, and perhaps an admin could do a 'ls -lR' and check
> the permissions are as they should be.
>
> I'm apparently successfully pulling from there at the moment.
>
>> For a fresh branch (or for a bzr pull on an existing branch) I get the
>> same error i.e.
>>
>> address@hidden:~/tmp/bzr$ bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk/
>> bzr: ERROR: Connection closed: Unexpected end of message. Please check
>> connectivity and permissions, and report a bug if problems persist.
>> address@hidden:~/tmp/bzr$
>
> This is also just the OS reporting the connection was reset, similar
> to what Eli has.  I think either the process is being killed on the
> server or there is some kind of connection glitch.  I suppose it's
> possible it's a bug in bzr but I can't think what would cause it to
> break just then, and I haven't heard of it elsewhere.  Getting a trace
> of bzr running on the server could be good.
>
> m
>

Hi Martin,

thanks for the response. Unfortunately, I cannot help with the server
log info, but maybe Eli or someone else can assist with this.

The really 'odd' thing here is that it seems so inconsistent in that I
would expect if it is a permission issue, it would affect everyone and
if it is a random OS locking issue/bug, then I would sometimes be
'lucky'. However, I get consistent results - from my work mahcine, it
fails every time, from my home machine (different netowrk, slower
connection!) it works without a problem. At the same time, I can
connect to other bzr repositories on other servers from the work
machine with no problem.

If I can assist anyone trying to diagnose this with additional debug
info or tests, I'm more that willing to do so.

Tim



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